My Dad Was A [theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.

I Think I Am A Radical. I Have Never Deviated From That. By Radical, I Mean Someone Trying To Go To The Root Of Things.

Large Numbers Of People Are Broken From The Notion That The System Is Working For People, That The System Is Just Or Humane Or Peaceful.

Your Kids Require You Most Of All To Love Them For Who They Are, Not To Spend Your Whole Time Trying To Correct Them.

To Me, Activism Requires You To Try Very Hard To Open Your Eyes To The World As It Is. See As Much As You Can, Knowing That Whatever You See Is Going To Be Partial. That You Possess A Partial Consciousness In An Infinite And Expanding Universe.

I Thought In 1965 That My Job Was To Convince Most Americans To Be Against The War. So I Spent Summers Knocking On Doors, Handing Out Literature, Trying To Talk To People Who Didn't Agree With Me, Trying To Get Them To See The War Was Wrong. And By 1968 A Majority Of Americans Did Oppose The War.